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		arcticbull on May 31, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's time for us in the tech world to speak out ab... Especially since you have to trust a third person anyways and once you're trusting anyone, you lose all the blockchain guarantees.

ajkdhcb2 on June 1, 2021 [–]

False. The third party can't take the money, it can only be given to the receiver or back to the sender. That's how multisig works.

arcticbull on June 1, 2021 | [–]

Correct, you have to trust the extra signer to make a good faith representation of what happened in reality. That makes the transaction inherently trustful.

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